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Originally Posted by cambaby
I think maybe you listen to the media too much, most Americans are center-right, and they are pretty silent most of the time. American media is notorious for painting a picture of center-right people as biggots, closed minded, stuck ups. Frankly that picture is not even close to being accurate.
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It may be true that the majority of the country is center right (or not, I'm not sure), but that is changing. I was reading the other day that the current generation who is around 13-23 years old make up the largest current segment of the population since the baby boomers. In 10 years they will make up 1/3rd of the electorate and at this point they are far more liberal than they are conservative. That might change, but at the moment most of them are more left leaning than right.
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Most Americans are very good hearted kind people, they just arent very loud and the only Americans you hear from on TV are the extremists of one political leaning or another.
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I agree. The extremist are the ones that get on TV and end up in the news.
All of this doesn't change that fact that many of our leaders who call themselves conservatives, who run on a conservative platform, really don't practice the beliefs that you have listed here. If people really do believe these things, why do they continue to elect people who don't? To me this means one of two things are true: 1. The voters don't really care. They don't take the time to actually look into candidates and they just vote based on a few soundbites that they hear. or 2. Our entire political system is so broken it is impossible for anyone who actually stand for these values to get elected unless they happen to have millions of their own dollars that they wish to spend.